Oscar Rivas

I don't mind any pain, it gives me wisdom. My rage is my strength, it gives me might.

Muchas veces me hablaron de la envidia y yo decía: "¿Pero de qué nos pueden envidiar?" Y la vida me fue enseñando algo: que mucha gente no desea lo que tú tienes... solo quiere que tú no lo tengas.

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This 1 hour Stanford lecture on Markov Decision Processes will teach you more about the math behind systematic trading decisions than a 3 month internship at Jane Street or JPMorgan. Bookmark & replace one movie today with this lecture, then read the complete article below.

There is a point where reading more becomes cowardice. Another book, another thread, another philosophy, another model, another guru. The mind keeps asking for maps because the body does not want the humiliation of walking badly in public before it learns to move well.

I put together a short practical guide for economists who want to use Claude Code, but who haven't gotten around to trying yet. The goal is to reduce the start-up costs by using Claude Code within VS Code.

No le cuentes a quien hoy te escucha lo que mañana puede usar contra ti. La gente cambia de bando con más rapidez de la que imaginas. Lo que confiesas en confianza, dejará de ser confidencia el día que esa persona deje de ser leal. Habla menos.

How to handle disrespect (without losing your peace)

Jordan Peterson warned how a brain that stops reading eventually loses the ability to think deeply on a topic: 1. Reading for pleasure has always been a minority occupation. Most people don't read. Of those who do, few buy books. Of those who buy books, even fewer read difficult ones. That's not changing and that's exactly why it's your advantage. 2. Books are not like photographs. A photograph is a click. A book is a portrait layered, worked over, and built with depth. No other medium lets you think, rethink, and go deeper the way a book does. 3. YouTube and podcasts are not the enemy of reading. They are extensions of it. A great podcast can carry the same value as a great book. Peterson treats them as complements, not competition. 4. The real revolution of podcasts is found time. You can't read while driving or doing the dishes. But you can listen. All that dead time, commuting, cooking, exercising is now a university education available to anyone with a phone. 5. Long-form attention is not dead. Joe Rogan does three-hour podcasts. Peterson's lectures run two hours. Millions watch them to the end. People don't have fragmented attention spans. They have low-quality inputs. 6. When Peterson's YouTube views crossed one million, he didn't celebrate immediately. He sat with it. He thought: a million is a lot. If you sold a million books, you'd do the touchdown dance. He realized something massive was happening. 7. YouTube isn't cute cat videos. Peterson saw it for what it actually is, the invention of the printing press, version two. For the first time in human history, the spoken word has the same reach and the same duration as a book. 8. The people who learn the fastest are the ones willing to look like fools at the start. Peterson felt like a fool when he first lectured, first practiced therapy, first uploaded to YouTube. He did it anyway. 9. Most smart people dismiss new media. When journalists called Peterson's colleagues, they'd say things like "they always get it wrong." Peterson picked up the phone, had the conversation, and let the chips fall. That single habit changed everything. 10. The fool is the precursor to the savior. Carl Jung said it. Peterson lived it. You cannot advance without first being willing to look incompetent. Safety keeps you comfortable. It doesn't keep you growing. 11. Reading makes your thinking slower in the best possible way. It forces you to sit with one idea long enough to actually understand it. Social media gives you 100 ideas in 15 minutes. Books give you one idea that actually stays. 12. The brain is not built for passive consumption. Short-form reels don't educate deeply. They stimulate rapidly and leave nothing behind. Your brain needs time to process, observe, and emerge in an experience. 13. If you can truly read, you can read faster than you can listen. That makes reading the highest-leverage input activity available. Not everyone has the patience for it which is exactly why those who do get ahead. 14. The people watching two-hour lectures are not bored. They are hungry. There is a massive market for demanding, high-quality, difficult content. Most creators refuse to make it because they're afraid of losing easy engagement. 15. Peterson's point is not that podcasts are bad or that books are dying. It's that the tools for becoming genuinely educated have never been more accessible and most people still choose not to use them.

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Claude can now research like a Stanford PhD student. Here are 10 prompts that turn PDFs, papers, notes, and websites into structured research in minutes.

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Drew Westen, neurocientífico de Emory, pasó años escaneando cerebros de votantes mientras les mostraban información contradictoria sobre sus candidatos preferidos. Encontró algo brutal: El cerebro procesa la información política exactamente igual que procesa una relación amorosa. Cuando el candidato al que el votante ama se equivoca, lo primero que hace su mente no es juzgarlo. Es protegerlo. Las regiones racionales se apagan. Las áreas vinculadas al placer, la afiliación y la recompensa se encienden. Y cuando el cerebro encuentra la justificación que necesita —«mintió por una buena causa», «todos lo hacen», «la prensa lo distorsionó»— libera dopamina. Placer químico por haber restaurado la consistencia. Esto cambia todo lo que crees saber sobre persuasión política: El votante no defiende al político. Defiende su propia identidad. Atacar al candidato preferido del electorado no es atacar a una persona. Es atacar la coherencia interna del votante. Y eso siempre, siempre, siempre, fabrica votos para el otro lado.

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Jimmy Kimmel se desubico con esta broma, al reírse de Robert Downey, pero cuando el salió a recoger su premio en los Oscars, su honesta respuesta dejó a todos conmovidos, pues había sido su mismo padre quien con 6 años le metió en el mundo de las substancias, pero logro salir de ellas con esfuerzo y amor. ❤️🔥

A dangerous man carries no grudges. He carries lessons, standards, and the patience to let time settle everything.

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